Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] what the " in BNC.

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1 If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do !
2 And I think that there 's a massive problem that needs to be addressed , and I think we should involve those people themselves , also in looking at what the issues are , it 's all very well for people to decide , workers to think that they know what the issues are .
3 The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) .
4 The difficulty arises partly in differentiating between what the user needs to know about the workings of the system , i.e. , how transparent the system should be so that the task can be performed effectively and efficiently .
5 Provided that each state of the system results from the previous state in accordance with known causal laws , its behaviour can be explained and , in principle , predicted without worrying about what the system is for .
6 ‘ See , I got to thinkin' about what the chink said when he showed you the firebombs .
7 We may begin by looking at what the two terms ‘ marked ’ and ‘ unmarked ’ mean .
8 First we checked what the food supplies were like in the area simply by looking at what the local cats were bringing in .
9 Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work .
10 ‘ Prepare beforehand by thinking about what the employer wants and what you have in your background that fits this , ’ suggests occupational psychologist Ros Heaton .
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